Hello,

I am trying to follow along the metagenomeSeq: Statistical analysis for sparse high-throughput sequencing tutorial and keep getting the same error at the model.matrix section.

The code:

mod <- model.matrix( ̃1 + SmokingStatus, data = pd)

The error:

Error: unexpected input in "mod <- model.matrix( ̃"

I am not sure why I am getting the error as I am following the code exactly as listed in the tutorial. Any advice would be really appreciated. Using R 4.2.1, Bioconductor 3.16.

Thanks! Pam

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I converted what you posted to code, but I still can't see what is ahead of the 1 in your call to model.matrix. It's supposed to be a tilde (top left key on a QWERTY keyboard, after holding down the shift key). If you are not using a tilde, that's the problem. If you are, well, uh...